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Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge

Ejermo, Olof; Hussinger, Katrin; Kalash, Basheer; … - 2021

We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...

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Consumers' response to price increases : evidence from gasoline markets

Tsanko, Ilona - 2024

Understanding how consumers respond to price increases is key when designing price-related policies. Using microdata on vehicle usage and paid fuel prices, I analyze consumers' response, focusing on three channels of mitigation: distance driven, fuel efficiency, and search. On average, consumers...

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Fueling electrification : the impact of gas prices on hybrid car usage

Grigolon, Laura; Park, Eunseong; Remmy, Kevin - 2024

We use micro-level data on fuel consumption, mileage, and travel mode to study plug-in hybrid drivers’ response to fuel prices. When fuel prices rise, plug-in hybrids reduce fuel consumption more than gasoline and diesel cars. They do not reduce their mileage but increase electric recharging,...

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Can social comparisons and moral appeals increase public transport ridership and decrease car use?

Gessner, Johannes; Habla, Wolfgang; Wagner, Ulrich J. - 2023

used to pay for both leisure and commuting trips, and for various modes of transport. Behavioral interventions in this … strive to lower carbon emissions via a shift to low-emission transport modes. We find strong evidence for a reduction in car … substitution towards micromobility, but not towards public transport. Furthermore, we do not find any effects of the social …

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The demand for voluntary carbon sequestration : experimental evidence from a reforestation project in Germany

Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas - 2021

With the increasing recognition of the use of reforestation measures as a complement to conventional carbon emissions avoidance technologies it is important to understand the market valuation of local forest carbon sinks for climate change mitigation. We conducted a framed-field experiment among...

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Pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps : the greenhouse gas value of products, enterprises and industries

Kalckreuth, Ulf von - 2022

This paper presents a system of greenhouse gas indicators for markets and policymakers. The system is lean and informative. It condenses the relevant product and enterprise-specific information into a single number: the greenhouse gas (GHG) value. Like prices, GHG values are easy to understand,...

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Klimapolitik während der Corona-Pandemie : Ergebnisse einer Haushaltserhebung

Frondel, Manuel; Kussel, Gerhard; Larysch, Tobias; … - 2020

Dieser Beitrag liefert erste umfassende empirische Evidenz darüber, welchen Einfluss die Pandemie auf die Wahrnehmung von Klimawandel und Klimapolitik hat, inwieweit die Befragten gesundheitlich und finanziell betroffen sind sowie zur Einschätzung von klimapolitischen Aspekten bei...

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Impacts of deforestation on the incidence of diseases in the Brazilian Amazon

Saccaro, Nilo Luiz; Mation, Lucas Ferreira; Sakowski, … - 2016

The limited knowledge about the effect of deforestation on human health is an important gap for environmental and health management in Brazil and worldwide. In order to assess its occurrence and magnitude, we performed a panel analysis, linking data on deforestation and reportable diseases by...

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Metric and scale effects in consumer preferences for environmental benefits

Pleshcheva, Vlada - 2019

The present study investigates how the framing of information on the environmental impact of vehicles affects consumers' preferences for identical improvements in car quality. In online choice experiments, the effects of two metrics (fuel consumption vs. CO2 emissions) and three scales of one...

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Racial disparities in the health effects from air pollution : evidence from ports

Gillingham, Kenneth; Huang, Pei - 2021

This study examines the uneven effects of air pollution from maritime ports on physical and mental health across racial groups. We exploit quasi-random variation in vessels in port from weather events far out in the ocean to estimate how port traffic influences air pollution and human health. We...

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